Friday, 16 December 2016

Innapropriate Christmas gifts

Well...we can't avoid it anymore . Christmas is here. Kids have finished and its the seven day shamble. Thursday and Friday have been disappointingly quiet. That either means that Monday will be unbelievably frantic...or its all over already.So ..Christmas weekend comments please. BQ Industries has carried out our office poll of the most inappropriate or unwanted Christmas gifts that you have received or, worse, given out.

These aren't unwanted items. Or rubbish present or well meant crap such as a can of Harmony Hairspray or a tomato scented bath bomb from a small child. These are just ..well.. no one knows why anyone thought they might be suitable..There is no doubt that men are particularly, indeed almost exclusively, insensitive to the desires of their spouses and girlfriends at this time of year. Struggling to think of anything whatsoever that their partner wears, uses, does, or says, men reach into the distant memory for something; anything that they can remember their loved one saying they ever wanted or needed.And that's where the trouble starts.

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A guy in our office actually bought his wife one of those 'whirly' washing line contraptions for Valentines Day on year, and yes, he is still married. Pots, pan and other kitchen utensils are what he buys his wife for xmas and birthdays every year.

We never knew what we did or said to deserve two glasses, one in the shape of a woman with her tits sticking out the other (obviously!) a bloke with his todger sticking out. Quite crude they were. That they were from the wife's Mum....

Merry Christams to everyone on the blog! Hope you have a good one. I was just given a considerable bonus and raise as thanks for the past year of hard work. So bottoms up tonight (in a straight beer glass!) :)

Our family wish list system is breaking down because - shock horror - we are mostly comfortable enough that we tend to buy what we want as we decide we want it. This makes it pretty difficult. So this year my policy has not been to try to work out what people may like but to just buy nice things.

A couple of years I bought my brother and his then-girlfriend some nice bottles of spirits on the grounds that their main shared interest seemed to be heavy drinking. It's not for me to try to encourage a healthy lifestyle...

Not sure we have ever done inappropriate gifts, unless you count the colours of shirts I have occasionally been given...!

I have actually planned to come to two or three meetups and was determined this last one. Alas something always interferes I always endup in the wrong place... Last time I was still just north of Brighton at about 7PM. But I suppose that's why I get raises :)

Scan - We get joint presents now. Which really means they are presents for Mrs Q.One year it was photo frames. As I'm pretending to be excited I noticed the display picture that comes with the frames is identical to one in my nan's flat.

When i went round there next i asked her why, nestled amongst the various photo framed children, grandchildren brother and sisters, etc was this display picture. Nan said "That's your cousin Sheena..In America.."

I thought maybe cousin Sheena had been a child photographer's model. But far more likely was that Nan had been given the frames from 'cousin Sheena's mum and dad' as a gift and had just assumed the child in the picture was theirs.

A couple of years ago all my wife, a keen gardener, wanted was a year's supply of well rotted horse manure. She had skellies and going as well but I was able to boast that I bought her alike of shit for Christmas.